Search Results: Archeology from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige cloth, brown titles & decorations, 6 ff color plates, hundreds of b & w photos & drawings, bibliography, index. Boards soiled, tail of front joint fraying, otherwise very good. German-language history of ancient Mexican culture, largely from archeological sources. Shipping weight 3 lbs. Location:Archeology.. . VG-/No dj. 24½ X 17 cm.

New York: New York Graphic Society, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue-green card covers with black & white titles, 108 pp, 85 figures including maps, b & w photos, and 10 color photos. Covers sunned. Companion book to the BBC television series. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 23½ X 17½ cm.

Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1910 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Olive cloth, vii, 116 pp, folding map, 18 ff b & w plates, 19 figures, index. Spine ends rubbed & beginning to fray, corners rather heavily bumped, with small tear to cloth at one of the corners, edges foxed, gold ink titles corroded to bronze color. This is a report on archeological expeditions made in 1906 and 1907 on behalf of the Archaeological Institute of America. Sites were mostly, but not all, burial mounds, which were just beginning to be recognized as such. Artifacts pictured include the vaults, stone tools, pipes, and most unexpectedly, some rather artistically sculpted copper plates. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 24 X 15 cm.

London: Chancellor Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial boards, 287 pp, hundreds of color and b & w illustrations, bibliography, index. DJ is price-clipped, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. This coffee-table book samples archeological sites and artifacts from around the world--classical Greece & Rome, Africa, the Incas, Cambodia, Egypt of the Pharaohs, Persepolis, Knossos, China, India, Mesopotamia, Stonehenge. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. Reprint. . Fine/Near Fine. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York, London, etc.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Aqua blue boards, gilt titles on spine, 192 pp, index. Bottom corners bumped, slight wear to corners & spine ends. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Underwater archeological techniques and sites are illustrated with photographs and diagrams, mostly with one two-page spread per site. Most sites are shipwrecks from about the Bronze Age to modern times but some underwater sites are villages or cities (such as Alexandria, Egypt) that have been submerged by subsidence of land or by rising water levels. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York & London: Thames & Hudson, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth-textured paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, 215 pp, frontis., 136 figures, notes, bibliography, index. Small spot on rear board. DJ has tiny nicks to spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Two thousand years of Babylonian history are succinctly presented based on archaeological and literary sources. The figures consist largely of plans of ruins and photos of sites & artifacts. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 25 X 16½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xi, 273 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, bibliography, index. Bottom corners lightly bumped, else fine, owner's name (author Mark Hall) on ffep. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Discusses American historic and pre-historic archeological sites, laws, organizations, and basic techniques of field work. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 21½ X 14½ cm.

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Proceedings of a conference on underwater archaeology sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, April 26-27, 1963. Joint publisher: Council of Underwater Archaeology, San Francisco. Blue wraps with dark blue titles & decoration, 111 pp, b & w illustrations, bibliography, index. Library markings, including "Withdrawn" stamp, light wear & some browning to wraps. Contents: challenge, nature, & limitations of underwater archaeology, by Stephan F. de Borhegyi; applications of underwater archaeology (intro. by William J. Mayer-Oakes) to classical studies (by Charles T. Fritsch) and museums of technology (by Howard I. Chapelle); underwater archaeology & the "Cairo", by Edwin C. Bearss; techniques (intro. by Elden Johnson); methods of wreck excavation in clear water, by George F. Bass; limnoarchaeology in California,… Read More

Chicago & New York: Aldine Atherton, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale geen linen, copper titles on spine, blind device on front board, xxvii, 703 pp, 95 figures, 23 tables, bibliography (56 pp), index. Extremeties rubbed, edges somewhat soiled, front hinge re-glued with acid-free PVA. DJ rubbed, with a few tears (some taped from back), spine slightly faded; covered with adhesive plastic. From the Foreword: "In searching for an understanding of prehistoric groups, their settlements and their way of life, we must not let data-gathering obscure understanding. Instead our work must be more problem-oriented. Each discipline must contribute directly to ecological synthesis, and the archeologist must concentrate on deriving more meaningful results from his own data, rather than attempt to integrate all categories of evidence. More explicitly, I would hope for archeologists who can think as geographers, who can derive more social and… Read More

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, gilt title & decoraiton on front board, xxxii, 527, [1] pp, 40 ff b & w photo plates included in pagination, many drawings in text, notes, chapter bibliographies, index. Top corner of rear board bumped, extremities rubbed, otherwise near fine. Nichoria is a ridge located about two miles inland from the Gulf of Messenia on the Peloponnesian Peninsula. This is volume 3 of the official report of the University of Minnesota's Messenian Expedition, which excavated portion of the site from 1969 to 1975; this volume covers structures and artifacts dated from approximately 1100 BC to about 1200 AD. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Possibly a book club edition as it lacks both ISBN and price. Pictorial card covers with green & beige spine and black titles, 542 pp, 4 ff color photo plates, b & w figures throughout, notes, bibliography, index. Edge wear and some creasing to covers, a few dog-eared leaves. Collects a huge amount of information from ancient Mayan ruins. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Soft Cover. VG/No dj. 25½ X 18 cm.

New York, Evanston, & London: Harper & Row, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, foil titles & copper medallions, endpaper maps, xix, 296 pp, over 100 b & w photos in text, fold-out chronological table, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth fading near edges. DJ has small edge tears & wear; in Brodart archival cover. An account of the author's tour with archeologist Carl W. Blegen of the excavations at Pylos (capital of King Nestor) precedes a detailed yet non-technical look at the organization of Greek society in the Bronze Age, particularly as revealed by the excavations at Knossos, Pylos, and Mycenae. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/VG. Illus. by Photographs by Alison Frantz. 21½ X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the German by E. B. Garside. Dark blue cloth, silver dec. on front board, xii, 428, xvi, [2] pp, 16 ff plates, bibliography, index. Corners and spine ends bumped, cloth worn through to boards at corners and top of spine, paper slightly browned (paper in this book club edition is more acidic than publisher's edition). History of two centuries of archeological digs. "My aim was to portray the dramatic qualities of archeology, its human side." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. BCE. . G-/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards with blind decoration & device, brown cloth spine with gilt titles & decoration, [xiv], 264, viii, [2] pp, over 100 b & w photos & drawings in text, bibliography, index. Boards somewhat soiled, one corner bumped. Erratum slip laid in. Robbins describes digs he has led or participated in at various sites in the United States and how an industrial or historical archeologist does his work. His collaborator, Evan Jones, is a journalist who has given the book an engaging style and clear organization. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in mostly white pictorial card covers with black & red titles, 208 pp, b & w photos & drawings throughout, bibliography, index. Covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in tan & white printed card covers with brown titles & illustration, ix, 306 pp, 6 color photos, b & w photos and two-color drawings & charts throughout. First Edition under this title, but about 60% of articles appeared in a previous book, Old World Archaeology: Foundations of Civilization. Rear cover and last few leaves creased, slight edge wear. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Thus. Trade Paperback. VG-/No dj. 28½ X 21½ cm.

New York et al.: Penguin Books, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial wraps, viii, 152 pp, b & w photos or drawings on most pages. Slight wear to wraps. Text, photographs, and drawings illuminate over 30 industrial sites, most of which have been abandoned. In some cases, photographs of sites in use are contrasted with current conditions. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 28 X 23½ cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Anne Ward. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers, 432 pp including 16 ff color plates, hundreds of b & w illustrations (mostly photos), bibliography, index. There is a 1½ X 4 cm spot on front board where DJ apparently stuck to cloth, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contents: how monuments survive; how to locate a site; the excavation; establishing dates; restoration, exhibition and publication; prehistoric archaeology; western Asia before Alexander; the Nile valley; the Aegean world; classical Greece; the Etruscans; the Romans; Europe in the bronze and iron ages; the Americas; India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; the Far East. Shipping weight 6 lbs.. . 30 X 21½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Organizational Library. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, xvi, 383, viii, [3] pp, 16 ff b & w plates, 9 maps, 41 drawings, index. Ex-organizational library, with rubber-stamped ownership marks. DJ spine ends worn, 1" chip at top rear corner, book & DJ covered w/plastic taped only to itself. Story of the discovery of ruins of the civilization of Dilmun (along the shores of the Persian Gulf), which traded with the equally ancient Indus valley civilization about five thousand years ago. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in a review laid in, says, "On top of being a first-class archeologist, Bibby can tell an impossibly complex story without ever allowing the reader to forget a thing or lose his way. He can not only paint a corner of the world that this reader, at least, never took much interest in, he can actually make one want to grab the next… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Black boards, straw yellow cloth spine with black titles, xii, 340 pp, 53 figures, bibliography, index. Bottom corners bumped, slight wear to tail of spine, remainder mark (red dot) on top edge. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Nichols tells the story of how 20th-century archeologists have excavated Mycenaean sites in Greece, correlating the finds with classical Greek myths and legends which in many cases contain the only records surviving the post-Mycenaean Greek dark age. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 24 X 16 cm.